Brassiere entrepreneur and former model Ms Michelle Mone is created a peer of the Realm. How preposterous! It can only have been awarded for brazen self-promotion. She is the unelected baroness who called an elected politician “an SNP moron”.

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A devotee of the me-first, Better Together, anti-democracy campaign during Scotland’s Referendum, Ms Mone’s peerage presages the anointing of other democracy betrayers from that camp. (Almost all have been knighted or given earldoms.)

It is fitting she joins the politburo of unelected old tarts and farts, so out of touch they might as well inhabit Planet Kepler 452B. David Cameron answered the clamour for reform by creating fifty new Lords and Ladies. Thirty five are Conservative peers.

Ms Mone will feel at home among the scions of superannuated aristocrats, uber-rich party supporters, and government placemen and women.